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What do Cloud Brokers do?(Post)
What do Cloud Brokers do?In the same fashion that businesses like insurance agencies have brokers to act and intermediaries between insurance companies and customers, cloud computing has their own bro
What is SOA (service-oriented architecture) and why should you care? (Post)As technology and development rolls forward, the general complexity of things like software tends to become more intricate as well. This is partly due to the fact that the addition of new components
Game design and mechanics vs. Gamification(Post)Game design and mechanics vs. GamificationWhy many professional game design companies loathe gamification (and why they shouldn't)Let's pretend for a second that you are a member of a big game develop
Some of the things to consider before Migrating to virtualized technology(Post)What is going to be virtualized?Is a business's entire infrastructure going to be virtualized or just its servers? Is a business going to use application virtualization or storage virtualization techn
Platform as a Service (PaaS)(Post)Platform as a Service (PaaS)The Middle Layer of Cloud Computing In the typically accepted model used by cloud computing service providers, PaaS inhabits the middle area between user end software struc
Examples of Gamification in Business & Everyday Life(Post)Examples of Gamification in Business & Everyday Life There are those individuals that might try to have you believe that Gamification is some kind of breakthrough concept, as if it were only recently
Enterprise Portals as a Service(Post)Enterprise Portals as a ServiceAs cloud computing continues to grow (in terms of the scope of services that it is capable of deploying), one intriguing offering that many cloud service providers are b
What to do when the cloud goes down(Post)What to do when the cloud goes downSurviving a Cloud service outage Despite all of its beneficial components and quirks, cloud computing is still subject to the same kinds of outages that a traditiona
SOA infrastructure (for the Cloud) vs. traditional IT architecture(Post)SOA infrastructure (for the Cloud) vs. traditional IT architectureThere's a great problem emerging from the incompatibility between traditional IT infrastructures and the newest tools that are being o
Why you should be interested in a Cloud Computing career(Post)Sure, we're still living in a world that's largely controlled by what many might call 'old school' technologies; like the personal computer and grid-based networking, for instance.But we're slowly see
Are the economic concepts promised in Cloud Computing legitimate? (Post)Are the economic concepts promised in Cloud Computing legitimate? A closer examination of both sides of the cloud computing cost debateAnyone who's studied cloud computing for any length of time shoul
Why the computing industry is trending toward entertainment in terms of design and features(Post)What is 'Gamification' exactly?Why the computing industry is trending toward entertainment in terms of design and featuresIf you've ever participated in a drawing like the lottery, or perhaps a frequ